flaky edgy

[N. Pauli]

On Tue, 23 Jan, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:43:37 +0000 (GMT)
> "N. Pauli" <npauli at st-johns.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I've just re-started my machine and I now find that I don't have a useable Xserver any more. So, I'll try 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' see if I can then re-install the Nvidia modules.
> > 
> > Is Edgy meant to be this flaky?
> > 
> > Nigel
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    No, but it is.
>    By the way don't hijack threads like this, it's considered bad form.
> 
> 

I wasn't. It was a rhetorical question - a 'cri de coeur' wrenched from my bruised and battered soul, etc. 
> > > 
> > > > Does anybody have a clue what can be causing this?
> > > 
> > > No, but running 'top' in a terminal window might given you an idea of
> > > what processing start using more CPU when, for example, you launch
> > > Nautilus. Although disk-intenstive operations don't necessarily
> > > require much CPU, they will nonetheless nearly always appear at the
> > > the list because they require *some* CPU cycles.
> > > 
> > > Top also supplies a lot of information about memory usage. 1 Gb of RAM
> > > is very generous and should be way more than enough, but something may
> > > be hogging memory and causing disk-swapping; take a close look at the
> > > Swap line and the VIRT column in top.
> > > 
> > > HTH
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Nigel Pauli
> > Network Manager
> > St. John's School, Northwood
> 
> 

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Nigel Pauli
Network Manager
St. John's School, Northwood